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dual head on laptop
by Jerry Geis 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

I am trying to use the system-config-display utility to setup a laptop for dual-heal. I want my LCD to be 1024x768 and external VGA to be 1366x768. I presume the LCD will go virtual or something to match the 1366x768 which is fine. When I am setting up the dual head and click OK nothing happens??? On the console I have something about secondVideoCardOptionMenu.get_menu().get_active().get_data("NAME") attribute error. There is no second video card in a laptop???? How do setup the VGA port to be different than the LCD? Thanks, jerry

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Desktop media apps query
by Sanjay Arora 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Want to support the following apps on some of our centos 4.2 desktops. Are yum-installable binaries/rpms available for CentOS 4.2 and which repository? MP3 player Macromedia Flash/Shockwave MPlayer Media Player RealPlayer 10 Media Player Java J2RE and Mozilla Plug-in MS TrueType fonts With regards. Sanjay.

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New XFS Code for CentOS-4
by Johnny Hughes 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

All, I just submitting this information to the CentOS-Devel list. I want to also include it here in case there are people who want to use XFS on the standard CentOS kernel. DO NOT EXPECT THIS TO BE PRODUCTION GRADE :) ... it is a TESTING release (For those of you who are tracking beta code ... this is pre-beta, and use at your own risk) If it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces because I don't want any of them. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2005-November/000926.html PS ... I won't listen to any complaints that this code broke anything ... please be forewarned. -------- Johnny Hughes

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only root can use xwindows
by Roger D Vargas 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

After testing runlevel 5 i noticed that I cant switch to text consoles. So I went back to runlevel 3, but now normal users cant use graphic environment. I just got a black screen and an error message: Xlib: connection refused by server, Protocol unsupported by server root can start xfce normally. Any idea about whats happenning? -- Roger D. Vargas http://dsgp.blogspot.com | Linux, programación, juegos ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es

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Re: [CentOS] SOLVED [was Re: latex writer in gnome?]
by C.M. Connelly 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

"RB" == Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob(a)suespammers.org> RB> I know I should not say this, but I find VIM with syntax RB> highlightening a parted latex editor. I now have to mention Emacs with AucTeX. ;-) I generally grab the latest AucTeX SRPM from Fedora Core (i.e., from Rawhide) and build it locally. Or else get the real source [0] and build that. The latest and greatest AucTeX incorporates preview-latex, which ``typesets'' some mathematical stuff for you and displays it in your document. I'm not that excited by that behavior, but you might like it. I also install Kile, a full-blown GUI editor, for folks here to use. It's a KDE program and is a lot like WinEDT. Kile seems to be reasonably nice if you like that sort of thing. Dag has RPMs. Claire [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download.html -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc(a)math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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Re: [CentOS] GDM problem
by Jack Bailey 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Here's another data point regarding the GDM problem I'm having. Once again, I get this on the console: There was an error loading the theme Default Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/background.png' Yesterday I needed to edit some graphics I had done for a job. I use gimp. Now gimp tells me: Image type 'png' is not supported Soooo ... the problem appears to be with png support and not with GDM at all. Jim asked me to run "rpm -Vv gdm" which produced: [snip] prelink: /usr/bin/gdmXnestchooser: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmXnestchooser prelink: /usr/bin/gdmchooser: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmchooser prelink: /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver prelink: /usr/bin/gdmgreeter: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmgreeter prelink: /usr/bin/gdmlogin: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmlogin prelink: /usr/bin/gdmphotosetup: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/gdmphotosetup [snip] prelink: /usr/sbin/gdmsetup: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/sbin/gdmsetup [snip] This also points to something else. What that is I don't know. I don't change system stuff. Jack

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Bonding in CentOS3 vs. CentOS4
by Robin Mordasiewicz 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

I am able to bring up a bonded NIC in Centos4 without requiring to bring up the bond0 with an ip address, but with CentOS-3 I must assign the NIC an address or eth0 and eth1 will not slave. I need to bring bond0 up without an ip address becuase I will be using tagged VLANs. ie. <snip /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0> DEVICE=bond0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=169.254.0.1 USERCTL=no </snip> I can later manually do something like the following from a post network script, but I am wondering why this is different in CentOS-4. ifconfig bond0 0.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 if I change the ifcfg-bond0 to not have an ip address. ie. <snip /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0> DEVICE=bond0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes #IPADDR=169.254.0.1 USERCTL=no </snip> Then when I restart the network neither eth0 or eth1 are enslaved.

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SOLVED [was Re: latex writer in gnome?]
by Sharon Kimble 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

On 11/22/05, Sharon Kimble <sharon04(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody know the gnome program that you can write in latex with please? > > I'm not sure but I think its in the base repo. Its not winefish as it > (winefish) doesn't compile the source text like the program that I'm looking > > for does. > > Hopefully thanks > Sharon. > -- I am currently using a combination of emacs-auctex and winefish, with the occasional usage of kile. After a bit of experimentation I've found the program, its 'texmaker' from kbs-CentOS-Extra. Thanks everyone for your comments :) Sharon.

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] Message-ID Threading w/Subject Append Example -- WAS: pine rpm for centos 4
by James B. Byrne 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:29:00 -0500 (EST), Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17(a)duke.edu> wrote: > I'm sorry, but making decisions based on Stupid User Tricks is about > the worst policy I can imagine. That way lies madness. No, where lies madness is in the self-centred way in which some people make demands of others to alter innocuous behaviour so that the data requirements of some MUA or other, that may or may not support generally accepted conventions , that may or may not be suitably configured, might be satisfied. I read mailing lists as digests. Message threading is of no use to me outside of threaded web archives, that I seldom use in such fashion. Neither is the subject content of much significance beyond keying me as to whether some section of a digest may be of particular interest. This is not to say that these features have no value, only that my circumstances realize little any from them. However, I have been taken to task nonetheless, because my personal preferences do not meet with the approval of some. It is this presumption that irritates me. I am not a member of this list simply to ease the administrative burdens that some people create for themselves. I seek information and informed opinion on technical issues related to the equipment I am responsible for and the vocation I profess, not quasi-religious debates on the morality of certain widely held but hardly universal conventions. I sometimes (rarely) am in the possession of a piece of information that may prove helpful to another, and so I offer on occasion. However, in the main this list is my way of reaching beyond my own ignorance. Usually I am in the position of supplicant and I have found the people on this list generally as helpful and usually as well informed as other lists that I frequent. But I am concerned about the general tenor of some of the discussions here and how these may lead to ill-feeling in some and a disinclination to actively participate in others. We are all infinitely ignorant, it is just that some of us possess a predisposition to stay within that which we find familiar and others find it easier to take adventures. Neither tendency is good or bad, they are just personal preferences. It would be more comfortable for the list membership, and improve the decorum of the messages considerably, if people from one camp or the other, and the many of us that straddle both albeit on different issues, displayed a willingness to accommodate the other side and recognize that there are many important reasons, not all of which we may agree with, why someone chooses to do things a certain way. Complaining about people's email habits, particularly in public, where the content is not the issue strikes me as pointless, self- indulgent in the extreme, and reflects most poorly on the personality of the complainant. Sincerely, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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HSBC Banking
by Rob 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi, This is a long shot, but does anyone have HSBC Internet banking working with Centos-4? Various fragments on other lists suggests that it works with Konqueror but not for me. :-( Thanks Rob

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